I think it was his later wrestling stuff that people were talking about. But i don’t really know

He got voted off SNL so that’s probably why they say that

@@elliotthenry8951 He got voted off because people got tired of it. They "got" it at first when it was novel and then just was sick of it.

I was watching him then and I thought he was hysterical. I loved his wrestling the women-I just thought it was funny I didn’t find it offensive. Course, I always hoped she’d win, though.

I really didn't get him back then either just thought he was insane now I get it.

Ashler ss

he is lunatic, not funny

@@tesz-vesz1985 then you don't get the humor that's fine though people can have there own opinions

@@tesz-vesz1985 I'm not sure that I fully grasp the 'genius' either. I think Kaufman's whole shtick was to leave the audience wondering if he was fully connected or not.

@@kenmoelhoff3122 he was the first troll of the comic scene he wanted to confuse and amuse the audience and he did that perfectly so i do believe genius is right

He died 40yrs ago, I doubt he was extremely missed lol

@@jaywp2343what? Why?

You are a retarded sheep

I know its subjective but I like to enjoy any pointlessness that comes my way. I suspect all the people gushing at his genius enjoy not enjoying themselves. I enjoy The Office cringe humour, but Kaufman to me is strangely mean spirited

"This guy" WAS huge. But if the internet had been a thing, it's quite possible he would have been huger. Also he might still be alive. Usually I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but if anyone were going to fake their death for shits and giggles, it would be Kaufman.

Nah dude, he's just laying down some mad build up for the greatest punchline anyone's ever seen. My bet? He's secretly been Barack Obama. The entire time. Best. Prank. Ever.

+Trisador9 any indications lol its clearly a joke, nobody's walking away from his set thinking he's serious, and if you think he has anything in common with trolls you failed to understand what he and many other past and present alternative comedians do.

I agree. Andy is like five different comedians in one.

Gotta disagree with your 3 year old comment. What Kaufman did ironically would mix in perfectly with what trolls do today. You'd be damned surprised how many people can't distinguish silly from serious these days. Millions of people can't fathom irony. Millions.

Like any comedic genius

No. He entertained a lot of people. He was amazing and hilarious.

​@@frostelliethat's why he is entertaining because he's doing it for himself.

@@user-ks7pb5yj4n Any really good artist does it for themselves.

I know its subjective but I like to enjoy any pointlessness that comes my way. I suspect all the people gushing at his genius enjoy not enjoying themselves. I enjoy The Office cringe humour, but Kaufman to me is strangely mean spirited

I remember feeling sorry for this pathetic soul. And finally realizing that the joke was on me.

He exudes something that most of humanity would never touch, let alone master.

It's real.

He kind of has a lost look expression, probably knows what he is doing though.

he was already extremely popular...saying he's ahead of its time doesn't make sense here.

@@RowBlanka someone always has to say ahead of his time.

@@indridcold3762 ahead of his time is how Andy kaufman was. He was so ahead of his time that time was unable to catch up to his time which was ahead of everyone else's time. He only ever set his clock forward on daylight saving time and never back. That's how far ahead of his time he was. Indeed, many people in time were ahead of their time and time was of little importance to them, but andy kaufman was indeed the most ahead of his time of all the ahead of their timers.

@@regularfather4708 reading this @ 4am 🥴🥴goodnight yall

If he was so ahead of his time, he wouldn't have been appreciated in his own time.

yeah baby face

he is the only one that understands it..thats why he is so cool

I know its subjective but I like to enjoy any pointlessness that comes my way. I suspect all the people gushing at his genius enjoy not enjoying themselves. I enjoy The Office cringe humour, but Kaufman to me is strangely mean spirited

Jhully Amilly Marangoni uhhh yeah?

What character?

5:08 he cannot resist checking if the drum is still there to be reached

Scorpio He’s not stereotyping all foreign people he’s doing one foreign character that is stupid because it’s funny, I bet you’re SUPER fun at parties

Scorpio one thing is to laugh at the racism and another to have a sense of humor and this was funny

dahalofreeek just norm McDonald apparently which is awesome. Cause he is King

Jim Carrey outside of actually playing him in man on the moon basically became him in personality for most of his career. They even made a documentary about it.

Probably billions

TheChap1234 billions what ?? Yeah he was unique he was a complete idiot that people laughed at how much of a goofball he was and he profited off of it y'all actually think that was genius comedy??!! That literally makes me cringe when u associate genius with this idiot. I could get up on stage and do that type of shit . That's the easiest type of comedy cause basically your just acting like a child and saying random stuff and fake crying wow sooooooooooooooo genius dude!!! Bahahahaha gtfoh

@ a real 1: I dare you to try it. You will quickly find out that what looks stupid simple is actually hard to pull off. Even Elvis hisownself thought that Kaufman was the best Elvis imitator ever. I'm kinda sad that you never got the joke, but there you are. True, the cast of 'Taxi' was annoyed with him rarely showing up for rehearsal, but then Andy not only knew all of his lines, he also knew everyone else's. Had something very close to an eidetic memory (I've read that Jackie Gleason was like this also). Also, not breaking character is more difficult than you'd think and Andy was perfect at that. He could be a sweet naif and then turn into a monster in a microsecond. He truly was brilliant so, tell ya what. Give him a rest and come back to his stuff in a year or so. You might just change your mind.

Exactly. He was all of our insecurities shown on stage. That was what was so brilliant.

Even the transition from happy to worrying that the audience was mocking is incredible.

He was a jew.

@@lightupthedarkness6762 So was your father, but your mother never told you. What difference does it make?

@@lightupthedarkness6762 Great observation there fella. Thank you for sharing.

@@MetaDecker My father was not a Jew. In fact, neither are Jews.

💯 it was!!! I miss it🙁

David Eire I’m like wtf 😂

Perfect, so original...

+I'm unsubscribing. he's got a Hollywood star & you watch Ben Shapiro videos ~.~ soooo

there is a light and it never goes out lot of nasty people have hollywood stars.

That technique is what they call segue, I suppose

@I'm unsubscribing. something tells me you're a little bit right wing

@@2000andhate quit lying to yourself. His impression of jim carrey was of jim carrey, not kaufman.

All comedians borrow off each other-see Peter Cook and Dudley Moore-. It's a homage not plagiarism

Gyan Sporn Yes , I can see it .

High FIVE!🖑

This in particular... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jcx_iblozrvUYWQ.html

Jim carry did it well

Paradox spotted.

Dylan Collett ...🎶 La la la la la...La la la la la 🎶

no

Couldn't tell whether meticulously scripted or improvised.

Not... into comedy...? Anything that makes you laugh is a kind of comedy... you don't like laughing?

valdez87 Comedy as a genre, stand up or shows.

AgentOrange Oh I see. That makes sense.

scripted, i saw just one other performance by him and he did the exact same thing.

In the "Don't get it camp" I didn't even crack a smirk, this is comedy? Seems more like avant garde theater

Yeah, I don't get it and I'm almost 50, so I've known about him for a long time. I really don't see anything even mildly entertaining about his schtick.

@@MC-tl7oj Same

They used to do just that after regular SNL.

“Back when we was fab…..”

How about instead of SNL. Now it's all far left politics and they forgot it was supposed to be comedy.

daaarrell15 what does the conga drum symbolize?

Why y'all so mean.. must be miserable or something I'm really curious.. like does the drum mean that he was gonna play it the whole time? Like it was the punchline sitting there and still no-one guessed it? Idk but this whole video is very fascinating

@@disherofpain i understand what hes saying. The longer the act went on the more curious you got about what the drums were for. Or if they were for anything at all. Andy was famous for reaching a punchline but not only that just completely pulling the rug from under you. Wish he was still alive.

Conga, but yeah.

@@disherofpain How are they being mean? He used the drums at the end, so they really didn't symbolize anything. OP is probably going to pull something from stretching that much.

Same. First I heard Martin Freeman ripping on Carrey's performance which lead me to the film which lead me here lol

He has such a cute innocent looking face and eyes. Oh my goodness he is missed

no thats not it. if u actually read more on it, then u would know that he sexually harassed them.

no

I think it came 6000 years too late.

“I tink we should turn off de tv”

“I don’t know if yew er laughing at meh or with me...?” *proceeds to look like when you forget your monologue on stage and you stand there with primal fear in your eyes*

Just click the middle of the video and it will pause. You can tap it a couple times to fast forward or rewind

when he called himself a song and dance man he was trolling :0 just kidding idk

Why not both?

Karl trembath eric andre doesnt amount to one of tony clifton's moldy toenail clippings. Kaufman was a genius and a pioneer, eric andre is some guy at a frat party pretending to smoke weed so that he has a reason to be acting nervous and drinking their ranch dressing.

bird up

Or Borat!!

Or Joe Pera

frank grimes Didn’t Homer kill you.

The great thing about Andy is that you never knew what you were going to get.

So you are around 50 something years old?

Tom Bagiotas I want it as mine now

Barry Barry You've never heard the word "talent" before??!

Barry, since you never seem to get it, maybe you should watch his Elvis impersonation. Maybe then the light bulb will go on.

Joe Bobb There's no getting it later, Barry has zero hope of getting it ever.

Andy wasn't a comedian, he was a performer. Sometimes he was funny, sometimes he wasn't. His goal wasn't to get laughs, it was to get a reaction.

His timing was impeccable.

embe1 Yeah. I know what you mean. It's timing, fake emotions, facical expressions ... Hell I don't know why it's funny. It just is. People who don't think he was are the butts of his jokes.

A legend.. a genius.. Andy Kaufman forever!

If you don't laugh at the unfunny man you don't understand his humour apparently.

just like the Audience. you just laughing beacuase you think your "suppost to" even tho he is not funny, becuase every body calls him a genious and stuff.

@@dbog5214 He was for his time, people like you are just pissed because you don't get the humour.

Ryan Smith you’re stupid

Dude wtf this shit is stupid

Great description true!

Indeed...?

"Geniuses are not usually recognized during their lifetime", uhhh the introducer literally specifically called him a "genius", and people in the crowd were roaring with laughter. he definitely was recognized for his genius, hence the fact he managed to get to SNL

@@eyalbar5646 But she was a friend. She said that, too. Geniuses are bringers of change. They pioneer, and introduce new schools of thought, and often aren’t recognized by the world in their lifetime, because it takes most people years to catch up with their thinking. Some are recognized of course, but often (operative word there) not only are they not recognized, they’re flat out rejected or dismissed, because folks dislike change, yeah, but people also tend to reject what they don’t understand as stupid or ridiculous etc. because of the discomfort/insecurity that can come with feeling like we don’t know all we should about any given thing in life. Damn, there are so many examples of that throughout history. You must have at least some idea of what we’re talking about here.

Exactly

J

@@rprkjj8730 J

+roybenari Apparently and unfortunately many people do...

+Cosmonauteable The hell do you mean "by today standards" lol? What's this extremely sophisticated comedy that you see today? The transition from Andy Kaufman to internet memes and other mainstream sources of comedy wasn't incredibly drastic...Tbh I find him to be a hilarious genius, but to each their own.

Eric Huang but he isnt funny

I enjoyed it, but also the "you don't find it funny because you don't understand" crowd need to get over them selfs. Lol Not everyone likes family guy. You aren't no elites that sets the standards towards comedy.

You'd be surprised. Remember a lot of these people voted for a tanned orange man. Things tend to go over their heads.

Yeah, the joke is brilliant. Ironically, the lameness of the joke is the joke itself and how he wants to make sure people understand the extremely obvious conclusion of the story in the joke.

What is the original joke?

It's not a dreadful joke. I plan on telling it to kids.

I was there, I was about 13 and I thought it was brilliant.

So deliberately irritating people is comical? I get it now! Thank you intellectual guy!

+Brian Griffin Now you're a philosopher as well?! Look at you! I'm impressed. Please share with us all that you have found in your discoveries on the purpose of life. You should write a book about your journeys of wisdom searching and publish it for all of the KZfaq readers and subscribers you have following you.

gotmilk4ya Hahah you're a funny guy... who still didn't say anything important...

+Brian Griffin the feeling is mutual small fry

gotmilk4ya Thank you, salty tomato!